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Season 2, Episode 1
Four-part adaptation of John Galsworthy's third novel, To Let. The saga begins in 1909 as Soames struggles to come to terms with the relationship between Irene and his love rival Young Jolyon, a matter made worse when he meets their son Jon, who soon befriends his own daughter, Fleur. Eleven years on, the now grown-up children meet at a modern art exhibition, and Soames is shocked to see them together. Jolyon arrives on the scene and warns his enemy to keep Fleur away from Jon, but the pair realise they have a common objective and resolve to work together to keep them apart - little knowing they have fallen in love. Starring Damian Lewis, Rupert Graves, Gina McKee, Emma Griffiths Malin and Lee Williams
General
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Damian Lewis
(Actor)
.. Soames Forsyte
Rupert Graves
(Actor)
.. Jolyon Forsyte Jr
Gina McKee
(Actor)
.. Irene Forsyte
Beatriz Batarda
(Actor)
.. Annette Forsyte
Emma Griffiths Malin
(Actor)
.. Fleur
Lee Williams
(Actor)
.. Jon
John Galsworthy
(Writer)
Stephen Mallatratt
(Writer)
Jan McVerry
(Writer)
David Moore
(Director)
Christopher Menaul
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Damian Lewis
(Actor)
.. Soames Forsyte
Born:
February 11, 1971
in
St John's Wood, London
Best Known For:
Homeland and Band of Brothers.
Early-life:
Born Damian Watcyn Lewis on February 11, 1971, in St John's Wood, London. His father's family were Welsh, while his mother's grandfather was the Lord Mayor of London. During his youth, his family would summer in the US while visiting relatives who lived there. After studying at Eton he decided to become an actor, and eventually enrolled at the Guidhall School of Music and Drama. To make ends meet he sold car alarms over the telephone, a job he claims he hated.
Career:
Lewis joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his TV debut in 1993's Micky Love; his first film was a 1997 take on Robinson Crusoe. He gained more fame playing Mark in Hearts and Bones, but it was the wartime series Band of Brothers that made his name - he also got a chance to prove he could do an American accent, which has come in handy ever since. The Forsyte Saga was another success. Hollywood work has dominated his CV since 2003, with the likes of Dreamcatcher and TV series Life and Homeland. He returned to Blighty to film the big-screen revamp of The Sweeney.
Quote:
"I think I have an ear for outright vulgarity as far as scripts are concerned and I try to avoid that."
Trivia:
He married actress Helen McCrory in 2007.
Rupert Graves
(Actor)
.. Jolyon Forsyte Jr
Born:
June 30, 1963
in
Weston-super-Mare
Best Known For:
Appearing in period dramas.
Early-life:
Rupert Graves was born June 30, 1963, in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. The acting bug bit while performing in Victorian musical nights at the town's Birbeck Pier. Unhappy at school, he left at 15 to become a circus clown. He made his TV debut in 1978 in The Return Of The Saint and had small roles in various other productions. He later entertained children at holiday camps as part of Silly Billy Pickles And The Peanut Street Gang before his big break in Merchant Ivory's 1985 movie A Room With A View.
Career:
Rejoined Merchant Ivory in 1987 to play a homosexual in Maurice, alongside James Wilby and Hugh Grant. The controversial role gained him fans of both sexes. He has tackled numerous challenging parts since, including a transvestite villain in Open Fire and the lover of a sex-change male in Different For Girls. He won the Best Actor award at the Montreal Film Festival for his part as a naive young man seduced by an older woman in Intimate Relations. Other notable productions include The Madness of King George, Mrs Dalloway, The Blonde Bombshell, Take A Girl Like You and Fortunes Of War. Graves has appeared on Broadway in Closer, and The Elephant Man. Has become a regular in a raft of top-notch detective shows, including Wallander, Lewis, and Sherlock and is very much in-demand.
Quote:
"I'm really pleased with myself. I've not had any training. I knew nothing about acting except that early on I knew I wanted to do it, and I've managed for years to do things without doing them just for the money."
Trivia:
He enjoys playing football.
Gina McKee
(Actor)
.. Irene Forsyte
Born:
April 14, 1964
in
Sunderland
Best Known For:
Our Friends in the North.
Early-life:
Born in Sunderland in 1964, she was raised in Easington, County Durham, by non-theatrical parents. Notoriously reticent at talking about her family, but she does admit to being a highly creative and imaginative child who loved to draw, write stories and act out plays. She became hooked on acting and, while not encouraged by her parents, they didn't stand in her way when she won a role on TV show Quest of Eagles before joining the National Youth Theatre.
Career:
At 17, McKee auditioned but was turned down by drama school. At first, she thought she wouldn't make it in showbusiness, but continued auditioning anyway. She appeared on TV in such programmes as An Actor's Life for Me, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Inspector Morse, and The Lenny Henry Show. McKee also made a handful of movies, most notably Mike Leigh's Naked, before hitting the big time with miniseries Our Friends in the North in 1996, for which she won a Bafta. Since then, she's appeared in such acclaimed projects as Notting Hill, Croupier, The Forsyte Saga, The Lost Prince and The Borgias.
Quote:
"Some people can talk about their private lives to the media, and good luck to them. But I just don't feel comfortable. And I wouldn't be any good at it - showing people around my kitchen or whatever. I'd be pathetic in fact."
Trivia:
In 2002, McKee received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland.
Beatriz Batarda
(Actor)
.. Annette Forsyte
Emma Griffiths Malin
(Actor)
.. Fleur
Lee Williams
(Actor)
.. Jon
John Galsworthy
(Writer)
Stephen Mallatratt
(Writer)
Jan McVerry
(Writer)
David Moore
(Director)
Christopher Menaul
(Director)
